OCE II: Electric Boogaloo

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Tue Mar 05, 2019 10:35 am

jlabbate wrote:
jmagee87 wrote:Bump....

Rumor mill is our ol' pal Roman is teaming up with Harry Knowles to start a new venture to compete with Mondo. Let the dumpster fire commence

not too shocking considering he's a contributor on AICN now
Haha, seriously? Does he have a corny nickname too?
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Tue Mar 05, 2019 10:38 am

35mmpaul wrote:
jkw3000 wrote:Who...who thought that would be a good idea?

They gonna get Devin Faraci to write their blog posts or what
And they will be exclusively doing Bill Cosby movies.
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Tue Mar 05, 2019 10:39 am

The Fall of the Roman Empire: An Official Odd City Timeline

6/21/13 - Roman claims to get kicked out of a Mondo gallery show for being considered "competition".
6/21/13 - Roman tells Mondo and EB that "OddCity is here to stay!" OddCity is changing the game!
6/22/13 - EBers quick to blame Mondo, and side with Roman. EBers begging for Roman to make Roadhouse prints.
6/23/13 - Justin Ishmael posts on EB to refute Roman's claim, and posts his cell phone number so they can discuss.
6/23/13 - Turns out Roman tried to crash a Gallery press event he wasn't invited to.
2/14/14 - Roman arbitrarily converts the subscriptions into a token system. Declares "These credits will expire on December 31st, 2014."
2/14/14 - Odd City says "Yes, everyone that purchased at that sub level will receive the Amityville wood print as soon as we get it printed up. The date is still to be determined."
4/11/14 - Someone asks when the hell the Amityville Horror wood variant will ship and Roman says "We are waiting to send this out at a seasonally appropriate moment."
5/24/14 - As of the first anniversary of the subscriptions going on sale Roman has yet to arrange for the production and delivery of the Amityville Horror wood variant.
11/11/14 - Someone asks if the Amityville Horror wood variants have shipped, Roman says "Nope. It is kinda funny that people hadn't figured it out yet. They will be coming in March. I mean, the date is right on the print."
12/31/14 - Subscription tokens expire leaving people SOL?
3/3/15 - OCE previews Godfather 2
3/6/15 - OCE puts Godfather 2 on sale, collects over $60K for regs, variants, and woods
3/8/15 - OCE sends out e-mails that claim your order has been shipped (this is so he can collect on the money paid)
5/19/15 - Printing is finished, Roman says "Shipping soon"
6/29/15 - After a month of claiming issues with customs, Roman proclaims "they have FINALLY arrived"
7/19/15 - Sarah quits OCE, eventually tells EB a few days later
7/20/15 - Roman says Godfather 2 is shipping
7/21/15 - Roman says subs and regulars are shipping first, but your position is contingent on "where you fall in the pile"
7/25/15 - Jack Durieux posts on Facebook "Has anybody received their GF2 yet?"
7/25/15 - Roman begs anyone to post a picture of the tube they received. Target date is now "by the end of the week"
7/31/15 - Bottleneck offers to help OCE with shipping, Roman declines.
8/2/15 - Roman claims a bunch of tubes he shipped have gone missing from the USPS facility, and will get to the bottom of it.
8/3/15 - OCE thread hits 400 pages, lots of dancing GIFs.
8/3/15 - Customers that filed disputes with their banks start receiving their prints in the mail. Everyone else, nope.
8/4/15 - Roman offers jrsheppa a refund if he returns the print because Coppola, DeNiro, Andy Garcia, and wine bottles.
8/9/15 - Oddcity returns to EB and writes a bunch of unreadable nonsense and blames a "former employee" for everything.
8/9/15 - Oddcity claims to never getting an e-mail from Kramerica, showing a lack of understanding of real names vs. EB screen names.
8/9/15 - Oddcity tries to make nice, using upbeat emoji, and bolding the word "finally". It doesn't work… at… all.
8/11/15 - Oddcity posts pics of underwhelming Usual Suspects / True Romance prints sold A YEAR AGO. Deletes Facebooks messages.
8/12/15 - Oddcity writes an epic post on EB. I... can't... even.
8/12/15 - OddCity says drymount you, it is your fault they haven't shipped Godfather yet. Give them an extra 7 days, please.
8/18/15 - OddCity asks customers to remain patient for another 3 days. It's been 29+ days since Roman proclaimed "now shipping".
8/18/15 - OddCity is switching to shopify, which means more crappy prints and excuses are on the way.
8/20/15 - Roman proclaims OCE will be here past December, only different.
8/25/15 - Roman declares "all prints are shipped, you'll have them by the end of the week"
8/26/15 - Roman says that the local USPS has had problems scanning, still refuses to provide tracking numbers to those that ask.
8/26/15 - Roman says "Its costing me money each day that nobody has their prints"
8/27/15 - Roman says,"no more e-mails, we are busy packing woods with some prints." Dude's been "packing" for 6 weeks.
8/27/15 - vtswordfish posts an incredible Roman/Godfather mashup image. Seriously, its the best thing ever (page 460).
8/28/15 - Roman as an "attorney" working with the post office, he's given over $3K in refunds, it's all their fault. Blame them.
8/28/15 - Roman demands an apology from all those who have called him a liar.
8/28/15 - Roman sends out fake tracking numbers to get customers off his back.
8/29/15 - Roman blames USPS on twitter for not scanning tubes, but still says GF2 prints are shipped.
8/31/15 - Roman posts a picture on Facebook of a carload of GF2 tubes being brought to a USPS location for shipping.
8/31/15 - Daniel Danger being awesome
8/31/15 - Ebay flipper atexas comes to Roman's defense, claiming to have made hundreds of thousands on prints.
8/31/15 - It's obvious that atexas is in cahoots with Roman, nothing but compliments. Things get heated with downforcemedia.
8/31/15 - Lots of redactions. OddCity thread gets shut down.
9/1/15 - OddCity thread back up.
9/2/15 - Some people are starting to receive their GF2 prints.
9/3/15 - Many are still waiting for their GF2 prints to arrive.
9/8/15 - Looks like Roman only shipped out one batch of prints, many people are still waiting.
9/10/15 - OddCity Thread 500 page .gif party
9/11/15 - Odd City vs. Bottleneck
9/12/15 - Roman, Mike Judge, and the Ghetto Boys.
9/13/15 - Roman's daughter. Local celebrity. Chaos. Thread gets locked.
1/13/17 - Shipping notifications?!?
1/17/17 - Posters actually arrive, each with a little bit of Roman smeared all over them. Value of new 'Roman Variants' are still to be determined.
1/17/17 - td2243 sets his damaged variant on fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbqkXptaHHs
2/27/17 - OCE announces Godfather III print will be for sale at 1pm CST on THURSDAY, MARCH 2nd, 2017
3/3/17 - Roman gets emotional on FB and thanks the community, declares Godfather III will be in customer hands by the end next week
3/10/17 - Godfather 3 starts arriving. Wow, thanks Roman!
4/3/17 - OddCity Mystery Tube Sale! $50! 7-10 business days for shipping. A randomly inserted OG! ZOMG, all is forgiven! Thank you Roman!
4/3/17 - Notice of Property Seizure posted here: http://i.imgur.com/2wYa7z3h.png Roman owes $26,154.83. There will be an auction on May 9th for an 84 print lot (48 of them are Fargo).TJ note: I'm begging someone from EB to go to this auction and find out how much it goes for... for the timeline.
3/5/19 New Venture With Harry Knowles
X/X/19 ?
X/X/19 Profit!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=515-EfhXne0


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Tue Mar 05, 2019 11:37 am

Where's the tiered purchase option?
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Tue Mar 05, 2019 11:39 am

Did they misplace the decimal? Should be $27.95. Funny that someone thinks a domain with such bad PR can be sold at a profit. Enron domains are cheaper

https://www.hugedomains.com/domain_sear ... axRows=100
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Tue Mar 05, 2019 12:33 pm

Coming soon:
"Female Movie Poster Artist Defrauded, Harassed"
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Tue Mar 05, 2019 1:57 pm

Now Danger is dragging them on twitter
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Tue Mar 05, 2019 1:58 pm

Reckon it's a case of out of the frying pan and into the fyre...
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Tue Mar 05, 2019 2:29 pm

glenn1 wrote:
jlabbate wrote:
jmagee87 wrote:Bump....

Rumor mill is our ol' pal Roman is teaming up with Harry Knowles to start a new venture to compete with Mondo. Let the dumpster fire commence

not too shocking considering he's a contributor on AICN now
Haha, seriously? Does he have a corny nickname too?
HAHAHA yes! VVersustheWorl1
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Tue Mar 05, 2019 2:36 pm

mike123230 wrote:
glenn1 wrote:
jlabbate wrote:
jmagee87 wrote:Bump....

Rumor mill is our ol' pal Roman is teaming up with Harry Knowles to start a new venture to compete with Mondo. Let the dumpster fire commence

not too shocking considering he's a contributor on AICN now
Haha, seriously? Does he have a corny nickname too?
HAHAHA yes! VVersustheWorl1
https://www.aintitcool.com/robert-rodri ... ita-81747/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=515-EfhXne0


"rara charta, gravi negotio"
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Tue Mar 05, 2019 2:45 pm

Who will do art for them?

Are they that deluded?
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Tue Mar 05, 2019 2:48 pm

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Tue Mar 05, 2019 2:53 pm

bapaik wrote:Who will do art for them?

Are they that deluded?
No one.

And yes.
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